The Malware Defence Frontline

Malware, short for malicious software, is a computer program that runs on your computer without your consent and make your system do something that an attacker wants it to do. Virus, worm, backdoor, trojan horse, rootkit, bot, spyware, adware etc are types of malware.  Virus Computer viruses are small software programs that are designed to …

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Bots have been around for a while. There are both good and bad bots. A bot is a piece of software with a little bit of intelligence. It can receive and respond to commands. But also do other things depending on the purpose of the bots as well as its creator. Examples of good bots …

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Technical Details Written using the C++ language File Size: 1.6 MB Overview Win32.worm.dpug is a worm that infects Windows PCs running Windows XP and above. Analysis Upon execution, it checks weather it’s installed or not by quering the value of it’s key (“HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\gtalkupdate”). If that fails, then it installs itself by copying it’s copy to …

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A computer worm commonly known as “Teddy Afro” (Worm.Win32.AutoIt.a) is currently spreading in Ethiopia. It overwrites word, powerpoint, excel, access, mp3 and mpg files with this message: I am sorry If I corrupted your files, but it had to be done! You can’t get your files back because, I have already ruined them!!! The famous …

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Technical details Written using the Autoit scripting language. File size of 208767 bytes. Packed by PECompact to decrease size.   Installation Makes copies of itself with the following names once launched: %System%\%randno%\%randno%.exe Creates the following files on an infected computer: %System%\mler.a3x %System%\cper.a3x %System%\dwlr.a3x %System%\clin\ax.log (is copied as autorun.inf on to drives) %Windir%\ss.bat Ensures autorun of …

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